Organization Influences Success

Organization Influences Success

From creating videos and writing articles across the country, or just checking out a few new areas in your own state (If you’re in IL, check this out!) it’s never a bad idea to stay organized, and with today’s technology it’s easier than ever.

If you’re keeping a log or journal of activities in the field, organizing upcoming lottery application deadlines, topo maps of scouted areas, or even recipe ideas to try on that tough old buck you harvested, it’s important to keep all that information easily accessible and well organized.

Thanks to many online “cloud” solutions like Google Drive, DropBox, Microsoft OneDrive and others it’s easier than ever to keep all that information right at your fingertips nearly anywhere on the planet. You can even share your resources with your hunting partners with a click of the mouse.

Kurt and I keep a number of documents with article ideas, breakdowns of draw odds for particular areas we’re considering hunting, Google Earth files with glassing points plotted out, and other documents and files that are handy to have in one convenient location. With the shared files, we can collaborate on articles and other documents like packing lists for trips so that we don’t double up on gear and make sure we don’t forget anything.

I also keep copies of all my email confirmations for lottery entries and hunting license purchases on the cloud just in case I need to access them. A great feature of using Google Drive and other services is the ability to mark documents that you want to keep updated copies of locally on your smartphone, just in case there’s no 4G service where you’re hunting, which if you’re us is the majority of the time.

It might be a bit hypocritical for me to preach about organization given the state of my desk at my day job, but it’s key in being successful in the field, especially when you are hunting public areas across the country.

Author’s disaster of a work space.

Chris

Professional investigator, amateur adventurer; eager to learn and experience all that the outdoors have to offer.